Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 2 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 3 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 4 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 5 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 6 | We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years . |
| 7 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 8 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 9 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
| 10 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 11 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
| 12 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 13 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 14 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 15 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 16 | We have been lacking a wee bit of professionalism recently . |
| 17 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 18 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 19 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 20 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 22 | In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word . |
| 23 | We have been denied the exhilarating late ‘ minuet ’ tempos of Haydn and Mozart … |
| 24 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 25 | Solid fuel is the heating fuel we have been using the longest . |
| 26 | So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication . |
| 27 | a senior consultant in Consultancy Services , Risley , said although feelings generally were a bit mixed , ‘ I feel that we have been given a clearer picture of where AEA is heading although I expect to see a lot more changes before things settle down . ’ |
| 28 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 29 | To date we have been permitting an additional smoking break in the morning and again in the afternoon for smokers within the office as part of the agreement to have no smoking throughout the main parts of Chesser House . |
| 30 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |